RUMOR: Chinese Company May Be Buying Capcom

Chinese company Tencent may be buying Capcom. Here's a rough Google Translate (pending a better translation):

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Recently, news broke that the Japanese game developer CAPCOM or receive shares of Chinese companies in the form of curves login Chinese market. CAPCOM into substantive negotiations with the company or Tencent (Related: Biography CAPCOM login Chinese market or the domestic game companies to receive shares ). If the stake is true, then this is another entertainment that is a huge mine Tencent mutual investment in recent years in the case of international companies.

Substantial increase in M ​​& A events in recent years, Tencent, Tencent big acquisitions or strategic investments known foreign companies, in order to establish an increasingly large interactive entertainment empire. Following up inventory in recent years under foreign gaming giant Tencent investment.

Tencent generous investment ever, won eleven overseas gaming giant bag

In 2011, foreign investment in Tencent, more than a dozen outside companies, investment funds biggest project is the American game company Riot Games. At the end of 2011, Tencent invested a total of Riot Games company 2.44 billion yuan, and achieved 92.78% equity interest in each other.

2012, Epic Games Tencent get a minority stake in the company, the specific number of shares in doubt. Epic Games was founded 21 years ago, Epic Games to the "war machine" (Gears of War) series and the Unreal Engine (Unreal Engine) is famous for this event Tencent acquired a minority stake in the company since its inception 21 years since the first call for foreign investment.

2013, the well-known game developer Activision Blizzard to spend $ 5.83 billion to buy back a stake in its French parent company Vivendi (Vivendi) holds, the domestic Internet giant Tencent also involved in the transaction, and the only industry the identity of investors through strategic stake, Tencent has about 6% of Activision Blizzard shares.

2014, reportedly famous Japanese game software developer CAPCOM market to further establish itself in China, Tencent shares will be accepted in the form of start cooperation. Holding a variety of brand masterpiece of CAPCOM, Tencent will become the next new year strategic mutual entertainment is an important boost.

Full touch game field, international investment company Tencent List of Cases

You can see from the picture above, Tencent overseas game layout is divided into several levels:

1, the underlying technology

EPIC Games Unreal Engine development team

2, developers

The most famous include: Blizzard (6% of total shares) and LOL developer Riot (acquisition)

Many developers have invested joint venture in Korea fund Capstone Partners, including:

Reloaded Studios (Representative works: Tencent operators "THE DAY")

Redduck (Representative works: Tencent operation "Battlefield of the King")

Eyedentity Games (Dragon Valley development company, after Shanda acquired wholly-owned)

GH Hope Island (Representative works: TPS game development)

Topping (Representative works: Tencent operators "NX flight Wars")

Studio Hon (Representative works: youyouwang agents operating in "Keeper OL",

Next Play (Representative works: Tencent operators "QQ Wonderland")

U.S. investment in game development studio Vanilla Plain

3, distributors

Singapore game publishing operator Level Up (game publishers in Brazil and the Philippines and one of the major carriers)

U.S. game publisher OutSpark

4, communities, platforms, channels and tools for the European game information website

ZAM Korean instant voice messaging applications KaKao Talk Game found community Raptr

5, the surrounding tools

Video recording mobile gaming company Kamcord

Mobile game characters designed RunWilder

Icons can be seen by Tencent Tencent tentacles extremely broad, not just developers, platform, tools, and even the underlying technologies are involved in the field. Market through overseas acquisitions in the layout, the quest for the cash technology Tencent will continue to expand its Chinese online game developer and operator of market leader advantage.

And just when we thought it wouldn't get any worse for Capcom.

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If they pump money to it so that they make good games then I say, let'em have it

Chinese pretty much can buy the gaming industry if they wanted to.

How long before China buys everything...

Good. Maybe Capcom will stop milking gamers when they are bought out.

2CH would explode if this happens. There's lots of bad blood between the Chinese and the Japanese, the comments from the nationalists and racists would be the most hilarious ever.

Chinese is scum and will destroy capcom making company full mobile.

I wouldnt even care if they bought up Capcom, i dont think i've ever own a Capcom game in the last 10 years.

Better than being dependent on M$ .

Wait, I thought Japan barred foreign entities from buying the majority of their corporations? I've heard that's a law there.

I think the wording specifies western corporations only.

@Demonjoe93: only applies to western

Hmm, so that means this could actually be happening. How is Capcom even doing financially?

It just cut its forecast for profits by over 50%.

Well, I guess it's not all that surprising, seeing as how no one seems to like them anymore. I just figured there were still people buying their games like Resident Evil.

none of the japnese gaming sites are reporting it so its either fake, or capcom really want this to be lowkey(i assume the former). but oh boy, things would even look more grim if they got bought by a chinese or korean companies.

is this another joke thread?

i dont even know anymore :(

Rumors now really?

No, this is one is serious. It actually leads to a NEOGaf thread.

This would be a nightmare, get ready for SF and RE exclusively for mobile.

Well I have no problem with this seeing as how Tencent did a collab with a few of SNK's characters in Xuan Dou Zhi Wang a game from which they took alot of inspiration from SNK so I say good.

Just let Capcom die along with all their horrible (but once great) franchises.

They passed the point of redemption a long time ago.

Anything that might possibly slap some sense into Capcom is something I support.

Anime, and overly large boobs here we come.

There isn't much of the "old guard" left at Capcom to make me care about this news in the slightest.

Capcom needs to be shaken up.

Either Sony or Nintendo has to jump on this.

Resident Evil, Megaman and Street Fighter would be massive for Nintendo. Those franchises have always sold well for them, and would give them so many franchises with more core appeal

Capcom used to be my favorite company ever once upon a time...but they let so many amazing developers go and farm out there IPs to western devs, so I'm not really that sad as I would have been 8 years ago.

As far as those IPs go though, it would be nice if a company I respect to deliver games got the Capcom IPs instead of some unknown, but it's just a rumor.

I'm not so sure about Capcom getting money from this deal. Especially the employees.

Kind of skeptical about this rumored purchase.

the **** are you talking about? 2/3rds of the big three are in japan. lelelelelel

I don't want to sound like one of those hipster older fan. But Tencent ruined Riot Games, and they would have been better off alone.

They can buy out the company assets and the studios, but they can't buy out the employees. I wonder if this happened would the staff stick around or would they flee to create their own studios.

Capcom completely sold out. This is what they get.

@lamprey263:

Well if you know how the company treats them I imagine they'd just leave and find some other place. I can't imagine the employees not getting a decrease in bonuses and wage if the company were to buy capcom.

As if Japanese aren't going mobile at all?

Well, then pretty damn sure they will not allow China as well. They have much beef with each other. See Mr. Kutaragi comment above. By the way, isn't Tencent the same company that owns more than 50% of Epic and Vivendi?

@zeeshanhaider:

Tencent owns Riot games(League of Legends) and a minority share of Epic, not sure about Vivendi though.

Lol

F no!!! Hold your ground Japan. DO NOT SELL OUT TO THOSE DOG EATERS!!!

What is with the anti-Chinese rhetoric here? Keep it out of System Wars!

America = The world.

Am I right?

Seeing that mindset in other americans makes me ashamed of my nationality.

Software wise they are,and those two of the big three as far as home consoles are concerned,one is already a massive flop(WiiU) and the other is almost completely western oriented games wise(PS4),and lets not forget that it only launched in Japan months after Europe,North America,and other regions.

I believe you are forgetting the 3DS. Nintendo and Sony are incredibly relevant. If you think Japan is not relevant to gaming you are an idiot.

I specifically said home consoles,the market most people care about when talking those companies and the most important for "gamers",I know handhelds are still relevant for now though it seems that market is changing dramatically,especially in Japan. Japanese developers though,they are far less relevant than the west,software wise,and that gap will keep increasing.

I never said they were not relevant,they´re just far less relevant than western developers.

Pretty obvious they were talking about console games.